Dear Candace,
I’m sitting in front of my new sun lamp. The manual claims that using the light with the negative ionizer* will make me feel as if I’m at the beach on a blue sky day.
I mean. Those are some big claims. It’s terribly gray and cloudy outside, so now is as good a time as any to spend 30 minutes with an anti-depression light.
Along with my fancy new happy light device, I did end up purchasing a wake-light alarm, too. I found it on sale for $20 cheaper than the normal price! #bargainbabe
I thought perhaps it would help me wake easier as well as wean me from relying on my phone for an alarm. I’m trying to get my phone out of the bedroom completely in the evening.
I’ve busted all previous alarms, so part of waking up is trying to keep myself from slamming the thing to the floor. The light really makes a difference. In addition to helping my body out of it’s sleep cycle, when I turn the alarm off the light stays on which makes it easier to actually roll my booty OUT of bed instead of rolling over IN the bed.
I’m slowly getting back into exercising. As in-I started up again and then got massively ill and commenced laying around for days while preserving my winter body fat layers. My phrase for this year-”Do the Next Thing” aka “Just Keep Swimming” in the words of Dory-is an appropriate reminder to just pick up where I left off and keep forward motion.
My two youngest siblings spent the week with us while my parents vacationed in Florida. That meant a total of 5 children including two 14 year old males** in the house. That meant dozens of muffins disappeared, a huge pot of chili snapped up, too many dirty socks to count, smelly shoes errywhere and really loud outside voices inside. To say nothing of the knives, BB guns, skateboards, and trampoline tricks that had me banning half of them and double-checking the fastest route to urgent care because WHEN I’M THE ONLY ADULT AROUND I’M SCARED.
Some of the spring trees are blooming around here! A vague shimmer of green buds can be seen in this wave of brown…
I will survive,
Rachel
*Negative Ions. Apparently these are found naturally in air, forests, waterfalls, the laughs of babies, and unicorns. Harmless and tasteless, they are said to lift one’s spirits. I know nothing about ions, but I’m putting my trust in them.
**For those who don’t know: my son. my brother. my sanity, oh my….
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